Woman filmmaker calls Anurag Kashyap sexist

A young woman filmmaker has accused Anurag Kashyap of excluding her from his latest project and denying her wages.

That too because she was 'the only woman among 600 applicants to have made it to the shortlist, and was dropped because she asked why her film was edited.

Shilpa Munikempanna, in an open letter, hinted that Anurag has been 'sexist' in his approach towards his latest film project called 12.12.12, a collection of 12 short films made by 12 directors.

She wrote: "I am a Mysore-based woman filmmaker who was chosen by you to be part of the Mega Movies project 12.12.12. No one from the company that you endorse, as well as you, thinks it is important to have a dialogue with me about unpaid wages, disrespect and unfair dismissal, which has caused me tremendous amount of financial, emotional stress...

Anurag took to Twitter to air his defence. "Well I have become the system now... What a powerful letter... But my job was to choose filmmakers and give a story seed... Rest no idea..." he tweeted and added later: "You could have opted out before but you didn't...thanks for the free publicity."